Mr. Hoover's Science Classes
SNC1D: U4-L Date:
CURRENT EVENTS IN SPACE
A Page from a Newspaper/Class Presentation
Scenario
You are a science writer for the local newspaper. This week your editor wants a piece on space. Choose a topic from the list below (one topic/2 student group) and create a newspaper page that includes the following information:
An introduction that includes relevant background information for the page
4 subtopics that will be covered in different articles on your page
A conclusion that includes information about what the future holds in relation to this topic
You will also create a presentation that you will present to the class. The presentation must include an introduction, background information, slides for each of your topics and a conclusion. Adding pictures and diagrams will help to make your presentation more interesting.
The presentation must be between 3-5 minutes long and both group members must contribute equally.
Topics Ideas:
|Update on Spirit rover |Humans living in space – health issues |
|Update on Opportunity rover |Cassini Equinox mission |
|Probe sent to the moon recently |Satellites |
|Space junk |Building of the ISS |
|Shuttle program update |Asteroids in our solar system |
|ISS update |Solar flares effect on earth |
|Hubble telescope update |Speeds reached when traveling through space, types of space craft |
|First private citizen in space – space tourism |Plasma rockets |
|NASA’s next visit to a celestial body |SETI project |
|Finding planets outside of our solar system |Deep Space One Mission |
|Colonization of Mars |Viking Mission |
|Best time to see meteor showers, what are meteor showers |Galileo Mission |
|Best time to see Northern lights, what are Northern lights |Becoming an astronaut |
|Humans living in space – day to day life |Types of stars |
| |Another topic of your choosing |
Selection of groups, topic and research of background information – Friday – Sunday, January 13th – 15th, 2012.
Written Work Due – Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Presentations – Wednesday – Thursday, January 18-19th
Newspapers and presentations should be submitted to Mr. Hoover at: mrhoover.
A good program to use for this task is Microsoft Publisher. Find the newsletter template, and it will have columns set up for you already. Don’t forget to take a look at the examples, to get an idea of how it should look. Element of a newspaper page that need to be present are:
• Name of newspaper
• Date
• Title of article
• Subtitles for subtopic articles
• Pictures
• Newspaper formatting – small text, a variety of columns, advertisements, etc.
Planning Page – Use this area below to plan
Your Name:______________________ Partners Name: __________________
My topic is ______________________________________________________
My background information for my introduction will cover:
My first subtopic is _________________________________________________________________
My second subtopic is _________________________________________________________________
My third subtopic is _________________________________________________________________
My fourth subtopic is _________________________________________________________________
The information about the future that will serve as my conclusion is about:
Evaluation
Written Work: (30 marks)
Your written work will be evaluated on the following criteria:
• Newspaper style – formatting (columns, variety of title sizes, etc.)
(6 marks)
• Quality of writing (introduction, body, conclusion, organization, sentence structure, spelling, grammar) (10 marks)
• Quality of information (accuracy, choice of subtopics)
(10 marks)
• Interest (newspaper stories must be interesting!)
(4 marks)
Presentation: (30 marks)
The purpose of the presentation is to give you an opportunity to practice speaking in front of a group with emphasis on speaking naturally without reading! For this reason, the rubric is very simple:
Presentation Rubric
| |Level 1 |Level 2 |Level 3 |Level 4 |
|Eye contact | | |The presenter made eye contact with the | |
|(6 marks) | | |audience almost all the time. | |
|Speaking naturally | | |The presenter used notes only to keep on | |
|(6 marks) | | |track. The presenter did not read from | |
| | | |notes. | |
|Delivery | | |The presenter was well prepared and was | |
|(6 marks) | | |able to move through the presentation | |
| | | |without excessive pausing. | |
|Content | | |The presentation was delivered in an order | |
|(6 marks) | | |that made sense. The presentation was | |
| | | |understandable and interesting. | |
|Introduction/ | | |The introduction and conclusion were | |
|Conclusion | | |present and used properly. An effort was | |
|(4 marks) | | |made to make them interesting. | |
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